Studies on the meteorology of Greenland : interim report 1-6; Dec. 15, 1961 to March 15, 1965

Details

• Alternative Title:
  The Diurnal Variation of the Vector Surface Wind At Several Ice Cap Stations
• Personal Author:
  Schallert, William L.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Weather Bureau
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service)
• Description:
  Diurnal variations of the mean surface wind vector at four stations on the slope of the Greenland ice cap east of Thule are examined for each of twelve consecutive months. In each case all possible harmonic components were calculated. The first (diurnal) harmonic is generally found to be the dominant component though this fact is usually well masked in the "curves" which the periodic functions are intended to reproduce. Diurnal control of the wind vector is greatest at the highest of the four stations. It appears that the observed diurnal variation of the vector wind is a consequence of a wide varity of atmospheric disturbances whose nature the analysis technique is powerless to describe.
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Non-series Report
• Place as Subject:
  Greenland
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/67361/noaa_67361_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 14.64 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Weather Service (NWS)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:331b6a75c01bf2e29db8f3b892405aa012d28469f4c0680a975d0d316af056ff8798918768793091b6e3965598e6ac6f51ab63597aba86cb92765ccef1fbda38